Austrian Appeals Court Upholds Conviction For Denigrating Muslim Religious Beliefs

Hudson New York reports on a December 20 ruling by Austrian Provincial Appellate Court in Vienna  upholding the conviction of  Viennese housewife Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff under Section 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code for denigrating the religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion.  Defendant was fined the equivalent of $625. The conviction grew out of a 3-part seminar on Islam that Sabaditsch-Wolff presented in 2009 to a political academy linked to the Austrian Freedom Party, during which she said: "Mohammed had a thing for little girls."